"Welcome" (Homage to Toba-sojo), circa 2000
Monotype with chine cole 14 x 11 inches
by Iku Nagai
Tenacity, 2013
Photograph
by Mark Kitaoka
September 13
– December 20
"Iku Nagai", a solo exhibition of paintings never before shown, opens in the Peninsula Museum of Art's Decker Galleries on Sept. 13 (through Dec. 20). Born and educated in Japan, Nagai and her family settled in San Mateo County more than 50 years ago. She formed the group "Imagination" with fellow Japanese artists in the '60s and adopted cubism as a means of breaking away from traditional painting.
Eventually Nagai created her own synthesis of historic Japanese aesthetics and contemporary genres. The exhibition at the Peninsula Museum of Art features her most recent body of work, paintings created since her 1999 retrospective at the Triton Museum of Art.
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